PIPE DREAM

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A fantastic but vain hope (from fantasies induced by the opium pipe)

Example:

I have this pipe dream about being emperor of the universe

Synonyms:

dream; pipe dream

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("pipe dream" is a kind of...):

fantasy; phantasy (imagination unrestricted by reality)

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